C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D.

One Dr. Sarath ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Buddhadasa (SB) was given an opportunity by Lankaweb to print his writing on Boru Bana Sena. This is important because Lankaweb is the only non-governmental website that publishes essays written in support of Sinhala Buddhists and against the 13-A. This SB had his piece already printed by Colombo Telegraph which is so anti-Sinhala Buddhist. I do not know who runs this Colombo T, but it cannot say it is impartial. My guess is that it is a Christian agency of Colombo black-whites who want to create a Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  When I submitted an essay on world-level Christian plans to balkanize India it published it. ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ I was very pleased and thought that it must be a professional media outlet. But after when I submitted anti-13-A stuff, it asked me to submit a resume and my photograph. I told it that my resume is open on the internet and I do not want my picture on websites. Recently when I submitted an essay on Friday Forum in Colombo, it asked again not for a photograph but details about my doctoral degree. So I sent by e-mail all my degree transcripts (four of them from four universities) and my employment record since I graduate from University of Ceylon, Peradeniya in 1967.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  It published my essay but with a video clip about Ven. Gnanasara shouting at the police guards at Kottawa Southern Highway exit attached to it which was an attempt to sabotage the message I tried to give in my essay. ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ My subsequent explanation on why even a monk if he is not a politician would get mad/angry the way he was treated by the police guard was not published. Since then Colombo T did not print any of what I wrote about BBS.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  It is in this light, I see what Lankaweb has done to this SB.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  Giving room to different viewpoints is a good thing, but in Sri Lanka we do not have news people who are fair and reasonable. They are in a game to derail MahindaR and create a Tamil Eelam. ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ LankwebƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s goodwill is for them like the Interfaith game in Colombo, other religions come to temples to use temple premises but a mosque or a church is not open for Buddhist functions!

I therefore, propose the following for the consideration of the editor of Lankaweb. Let this SB (after all his parents thought he would be a servant to Buddha or is it not his real last name?) answer the following reasonable questions raised about his writing. If he refuses answering, then in future please do not print what he writes as he has ColomboT, DBSJeyaraj, Asian Tribune, Lankenews etc. while we have only the Lankaweb.

1.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  Does SB think it reasonable to make Buddhists buy things which include even tooth brushes with a halalized label?

2.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  Does SB think it not reasonable to prevent Talibanized women cover their face with only two holes for the two eyes because it is a security risk as any terrorist can wear a face mask this way?

3.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  Does SB not think that Jihad agents are busy in certain areas of Sri Lanka?

4.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  Does he not agree that the government with a Buddhsim PM has failed to prevent inroads by Taliban agents who thought of capitalizing on governmentƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s weakness?

5.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  Can SB give a single example of BBS harming any other human being or even a dog?

6.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  Does SB know that BBS is based on open discussion following the Lichchavi principles of Buddhist India?

7.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  What is SBƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s view on 13-A or 13-A plus?

8.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  Does SB agree with the LLRC decision that there are no homelands of any kind in Sri Lanka?

9.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  Does SB agree with the LLRC decision to empower people at the village (GSN) level?

10.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  Does SB agree that in Sri Lanka political units starting with GSN units should be demarcated by ecological boundaries and not by language or caste?

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